[Player's Tribune | by Steve Francis] I Got a Story to Tell

underrated legend. Part of the big 3 with the bucks, led the wolves to the WCF, brought the Clipper back from the dead

 

Dude. I'm giving you a F on Rockets history.

Steve was a Rockets rookie, just like Yao. They started their careers here.
We watched him develop.

Tmac was an all star from orlando who we got from trade

Tmac brought a bunch of TOFs who were the ancestors of the LOFs. They never thought Tmac had anything to do with failure.


Steve LOVED HOUSTON. Only REAL HOUSTON FANS KNOW THIS.
Regardless of the bad basketball IQ.

 

Thats great, but irrelevant. If we traded for James Harden on draft night, would he be "more important" to the franchise?

We traded for T-Mac, its how Francis ended up in a Magic jersey.

More potential rockets fans are good, its a business after all.

Those rosters were hot garbage outside of T-Mac and Yao, by the time Morey came and added real depth and complementary pieces, both Yao and T-Mac's knees gave out.

Carmelo LOVES NEW YORK, and REAL KNICKS FANS KNOW THIS. Yet letting Melo go was still the right move, BECAUSE of the bad basketball IQ.

 

If you can't figure out why Houston Rockets fans give more 'love' to Steve Francis than Tmac.
Then you don't know Rockets history.

I'm not arguing that letting Steve Francis was the wrong thing to do.

Carmelo has NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS and this is just another terrible analogy .

 

Without Steve, there'd be no Steddinotayto. I'd just be Eddinotayto

 

Lol. No team with Steve Francis as their best player is going to make a deep postseason run. Tmac's (and Yao's) health is the ONLY reason that Rockets team didn't do much in the playoffs. Tmac was FAR superior than Francis was. I wish we would've kept Cuttino

 

A TMac and Mobley backcourt would have been niiiiiiice....cashmere nice.

 

Steve should've been forced to be in rehab

 

Nobody thinks Steve is better than Tmac. What people were wrong is that they thought Tmac could lead us anywhere, he didn't. First round exits.

If we could have traded Tmac for Vince Carter, I believe we would have advanced.
I mean all we had to do was have Tmac sit and b**** while Ron Artest and a hurt Yao led us to victory over Portland.

 

a backcourt of Sam Cassell and Cuttino Mobley led the Clippers to a playoff series victory.

Cassell and Mobley and Yao > Tmac and Yao

 

Yes, 1st round exits plagued Tmac here. But it wasn't necessarily his lack of production. He always played good and never had any Harden-esque meltdown performances. The better team won each time

 

Did Harden melt down in the first round?

Harden playoff games as Rocket, 45
Tmac 20

 

I met his ex-wife and daughter very randomly about 3 months ago. Just casual talk asking his 12 year old daughter where she played ball and asking how far did her dad make it. I lost it when she said NBA then asked her who is he and she said Steve Francis.

 

I thought he went about as far as he could go with the Rockets as a lead guy (had a lot of heart but just didn't play very smart. Seemed like the Rockets were always fighting the shot clock more than the opponent), but I think he should have gotten more playing time off the bench his second time around. I seem to recall he did some nice things in the very little time he did get...

 

Pretty sure the next thing Hakeem said to him was "You must feed the big man, Steve."

 

This is the hate I'm talking about. Steve is underrated. Look at the teams we had around him.

 

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I pondered how to respond to this. There is nothing to say, just hit the like button baby. We love ya Stevie!

 

Good article in some respects, but man Francis is still so full of ****.

 

PRIME Steve Francis was one of my very favorite players all time.. sucks to see him look so bad now. It seemed like toward the end of him with the Rockets, his shot wasn't falling like it use to and he wasn't going to get any better.. That first year with Orlando though I thought he played well and that he was back on track, but they snubbed him for the All Star game for Big Z and they shipped off Cuttino.. was over after that..sucks

 

He gets some hate but he also gets a lot of love -- he would get even more love if he hadn't thrown his career away drinking and doing drugs.